Scientific Notation

1. Convert between regular and scientific notation and

2. Perform operations on numbers in scientific notation.

Converting To Scientific Notation

Scientific notation is the representation of a measurement in this form:

Where N is between 1 and 10 and “n” represents how many times a number must be multiplied by 10 to reach the number in it’s non-scientific notation. For example, the number 260 would be represented as:

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